Hailed by Japanese music magazine as “The variety of tones evokes the vastness of nature and its communion with mankind” Japanese pianist, Takumi Nashimoto, performs as a soloist and chamber musician in Japan.

He was born into a family of music-lover, and received an early start on the piano and composition at the age of 3. Since then, from 2014, the age of 18, he started studies in Tokyo University of the Arts and got numerous opportunities for performance as a professional pianist such as “La Folle Journée TOKYO”.

Takumi Nashimoto has studied with Kálmán Dráfi at the Liszt Academy of Music in 2018-2021 as a scholarship holder of “Stipendium Hungaricum” and “China Bank Budapest”. He earned the Master of degree in piano performance and the Highly Specialized Piano Soloist Diploma as a principal.

He has won numerous awards, including Grand-Prix at the Nagano Piano Competition(2009) and second prize with special awards in the “Nohant Festival Chopin in Japan competition”(2024).

In recent seasons, Takumi Nashimoto has performed concerti with world-class orchestra and conductors, including Mozart’s 20th Piano Concerto with Maestro Hubert Soudant and ensemble NOVA, Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Gábor Horváth and the Budapest Faironi Chamber Orchestra, and Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 with Masanori Mikawa and Odawara Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he performed in triple piano ensemble, using 3 Steinway Concert Grands, with invitation as a pianist and arranger three times.

Furthermore, from 2022 to 2024, he performed in numerous solo and ensemble recitals as a Meigakudo Artist. His Debut CD “Kotonoha Music” was released in 2022, and 2nd album “Chronicle” was released in 2026, both by Studio N.A.T.

He is talented not only as a soloist but also as an ensemble musician. In 2025, he passed an audition and began working as a collaborating pianist for musicals and operas. Starting in 2026, he served as an accompaniment assistant in the vocal music departments at Tokyo College of Music and Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.